Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
Wouldest
Thy sword
Set bread
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Bible References
Wouldest
Deuteronomy 20:11
{And then} if {they accept your terms of peace} and {they surrender to you}, {and then} all the people {inhabiting it} shall be forced labor for you, and they shall serve you.
2 Chronicles 28:8
And the Israelites captured two hundred thousand of their brothers, women, sons, and daughters. And they also plundered much booty from them and brought the booty to Samaria.
Thy sword
Genesis 48:22
And I have given to you one slope [of land] rather than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorites by my sword and with my bow."
Joshua 24:12
I sent before you [the] hornet and they drove out before you two kings of the Amorites; [but] not by your sword or bow.
Psalm 44:6
For I do not trust my bow, and my sword cannot give me victory.
Hosea 1:7
But I will have pity [on] the house of Judah and I will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not deliver them by bow, sword, war, horses, or horsemen.
Hosea 2:18
I will make a covenant for them on that day, with the animals of the field, with the birds of the heaven, and [with] the creeping things of the ground; [the] bow, [the] sword, and [the] war I will abolish from the land, and I will let them lie down in safety.
Set bread
Proverbs 25:21
If your enemy [is] hungry, feed him bread, and if thirsty, let him drink water.
Matthew 5:44
But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Romans 12:20
But "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him [something] to drink; for [by] doing this, you will heap up coals of fire upon his head."
General references
Matthew 5:44
But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,